Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
LMAO
ROTFLMAO!
STBROTFLMAO!
PMP!1
Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago 2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy 2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE) 2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston 2020: Oakland, Oakland:2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana 2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
I’d still like to know what solutions the political party you most closely identify with has for your “essentials,” seeing how you don’t seem to believe reducing insulin costs was worthy. I guess CA repubs protecting religion is a sound policy goal. Wow.
See I brought it up again because I’m trying to understand where you’re coming from as a conservative or repub. You rooting for Deathsantis? Think he’ll lower the costs of those “essentials?”
I won’t wait for some convoluted answer that’s as clear as mud but I expect some poster’s seeming ability to get you.
I have to admit, I do admire your creative way of reaching to these conclusions. I was going to copy and paste all of the times I said I am glad they cap medicine because it is too expensive. But decided not to. I've said it probably 5 times. But I will if you can quote where I said repubs protecting religion is a sound goal. That came out of nowhere, who was talking about protecting or not protecting religion? Closest thing to that was you took one line from a website I linked to answer your question "protect faith-based organizations that provide shelter and fund local government efforts to increase shelter capacity" and asked me what "protecting faith based organizations" means. I said it probably means offering financial support to organizations like a church that provide shelters and food to homeless. And why not? If a church is willing to use their facility to feed homeless, why not provide some aide in that? I look forward to your newest creative interpretation.
Can you tell me if the CA repub talking points memo on policy has made it to any legislation in the legislature or been inserted into a bill and debated? Or passed as law? On one hand, you have Brandon with a major legislative accomplishment and the other, nothing but talking points. Seems you prefer talking points or everything has to be solved, your “essentials,” to give credit. Reminds me of the gun debate.
Why not? Separation of church and state, a fundamental right being trampled and probably, like you and abortion or birth control, I don’t want my tax dollars supporting a cult (religion).
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
LMAO
ROTFLMAO!
STBROTFLMAO!
PMP!1
Okay I'm out. I don't know what this means.
The next logical step after rolling on the floor and laughing your ass off
pooping my pants
Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago 2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy 2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE) 2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston 2020: Oakland, Oakland:2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana 2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
I’d still like to know what solutions the political party you most closely identify with has for your “essentials,” seeing how you don’t seem to believe reducing insulin costs was worthy. I guess CA repubs protecting religion is a sound policy goal. Wow.
See I brought it up again because I’m trying to understand where you’re coming from as a conservative or repub. You rooting for Deathsantis? Think he’ll lower the costs of those “essentials?”
I won’t wait for some convoluted answer that’s as clear as mud but I expect some poster’s seeming ability to get you.
I have to admit, I do admire your creative way of reaching to these conclusions. I was going to copy and paste all of the times I said I am glad they cap medicine because it is too expensive. But decided not to. I've said it probably 5 times. But I will if you can quote where I said repubs protecting religion is a sound goal. That came out of nowhere, who was talking about protecting or not protecting religion? Closest thing to that was you took one line from a website I linked to answer your question "protect faith-based organizations that provide shelter and fund local government efforts to increase shelter capacity" and asked me what "protecting faith based organizations" means. I said it probably means offering financial support to organizations like a church that provide shelters and food to homeless. And why not? If a church is willing to use their facility to feed homeless, why not provide some aide in that? I look forward to your newest creative interpretation.
You said "glad they cap medicine" twice in 15 posts then went on and on about "essentials" this and "essentials" that. I clearly stated why I took issue. Its posted a few pages back. Enjoy your "essentials." I look forward to more "creative interpretation." Choose to ignore if you will.
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
LMAO
ROTFLMAO!
STBROTFLMAO!
PMP!1
Okay I'm out. I don't know what this means.
The next logical step after rolling on the floor and laughing your ass off
pooping my pants
Well, it's a little late for that. The STB prefix was 'shitting the bed'.
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
LMAO
ROTFLMAO!
STBROTFLMAO!
PMP!1
Okay I'm out. I don't know what this means.
The next logical step after rolling on the floor and laughing your ass off
pooping my pants
Well, it's a little late for that. The STB prefix was 'shitting the bed'.
ah...Amber style
Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago 2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy 2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE) 2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston 2020: Oakland, Oakland:2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana 2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
I’d still like to know what solutions the political party you most closely identify with has for your “essentials,” seeing how you don’t seem to believe reducing insulin costs was worthy. I guess CA repubs protecting religion is a sound policy goal. Wow.
See I brought it up again because I’m trying to understand where you’re coming from as a conservative or repub. You rooting for Deathsantis? Think he’ll lower the costs of those “essentials?”
I won’t wait for some convoluted answer that’s as clear as mud but I expect some poster’s seeming ability to get you.
I have to admit, I do admire your creative way of reaching to these conclusions. I was going to copy and paste all of the times I said I am glad they cap medicine because it is too expensive. But decided not to. I've said it probably 5 times. But I will if you can quote where I said repubs protecting religion is a sound goal. That came out of nowhere, who was talking about protecting or not protecting religion? Closest thing to that was you took one line from a website I linked to answer your question "protect faith-based organizations that provide shelter and fund local government efforts to increase shelter capacity" and asked me what "protecting faith based organizations" means. I said it probably means offering financial support to organizations like a church that provide shelters and food to homeless. And why not? If a church is willing to use their facility to feed homeless, why not provide some aide in that? I look forward to your newest creative interpretation.
1. Can you tell me if the CA repub talking points memo on policy has made it to any legislation in the legislature or been inserted into a bill and debated? Or passed as law? On one hand, you have Brandon with a major legislative accomplishment and the other, nothing but talking points. Seems you prefer talking points or everything has to be solved, your “essentials,” to give credit. Reminds me of the gun debate.
2. Why not? Separation of church and state, a fundamental right being trampled and probably, like you and abortion or birth control, I don’t want my tax dollars supporting a cult (religion).
3. Hows that for creative interpretation? LOL.
1. No, I can't tell you. I havent looked into it. You asked a question, I gave an answer. I didn't know there were going to be follow ups when I provided a response.
2. That is a fair point, and I think the reason churches don't get support when providing food and shelter. Personally, I think if there are people living on the streets and going without food (and a lot of people go without food who aren't homeless. Summer breaks and other times away from school are known to be hard for low income families that depend on school suport to provide meals) I'd be fine letting that family decide of they want to turn down a free meal because of who is offering it rather than have the government turn it down for them. But like I said, you have a fair point and that is my opinion on it. Yours is valid here too.
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
LMAO
ROTFLMAO!
STBROTFLMAO!
PMP!1
Okay I'm out. I don't know what this means.
The next logical step after rolling on the floor and laughing your ass off
pooping my pants
Well, it's a little late for that. The STB prefix was 'shitting the bed'.
Mace brought up housing, food, gas as essential as if in his typical “gee why doesn’t someone do something about those things” in the context of Brandon reducing insulin costs by two thirds through a major piece of legislation, legislation not supported by many repubs, by the way, that impacted Medicare and thus trickled down to all Americans dependent on insulin to survive, in a lame attempt to be critical of Brandon and dem policies. It, IMHO, was a dumb attempt at a knock on a policy that clearly has a positive outcome for millions of Americans. Couldn’t he have celebrated that accomplishment?
So let me ask, would you right leaning folks on here be agreeable to dems or repubs introducing legislation that reduces the cost of “essentials” like food, housing and gas or inflation by two thirds for a portion of Americans, and by extension, many more?
Mace also chose California as his example so I’ll tell you what Tennessee did to solve their homelessness. They made it illegal to “camp” in public rights of way like under overpasses, medians, wooded areas, parks, etc. I suppose three hots and a cot is housing.
There is an ignore feature if you’re scared to share your thoughts or don’t like comments. I suggest you use it (general you). Sorry, not sorry that trying to understand where the fuck someone is coming from is such a pain for some. Maybe think before you hit send as I wonder if anyone doesn’t understand my position and needs me to clarify? Carry on.
I didn’t bring it up. That’s what made it weird you wouldn’t let it go for something I didn’t bring up in the first place.
You brought it up after it was brought up. For fucks sake.
But then you brought it up after I brought it up when someone else brought it up.
I’d still like to know what solutions the political party you most closely identify with has for your “essentials,” seeing how you don’t seem to believe reducing insulin costs was worthy. I guess CA repubs protecting religion is a sound policy goal. Wow.
See I brought it up again because I’m trying to understand where you’re coming from as a conservative or repub. You rooting for Deathsantis? Think he’ll lower the costs of those “essentials?”
I won’t wait for some convoluted answer that’s as clear as mud but I expect some poster’s seeming ability to get you.
I have to admit, I do admire your creative way of reaching to these conclusions. I was going to copy and paste all of the times I said I am glad they cap medicine because it is too expensive. But decided not to. I've said it probably 5 times. But I will if you can quote where I said repubs protecting religion is a sound goal. That came out of nowhere, who was talking about protecting or not protecting religion? Closest thing to that was you took one line from a website I linked to answer your question "protect faith-based organizations that provide shelter and fund local government efforts to increase shelter capacity" and asked me what "protecting faith based organizations" means. I said it probably means offering financial support to organizations like a church that provide shelters and food to homeless. And why not? If a church is willing to use their facility to feed homeless, why not provide some aide in that? I look forward to your newest creative interpretation.
1. Can you tell me if the CA repub talking points memo on policy has made it to any legislation in the legislature or been inserted into a bill and debated? Or passed as law? On one hand, you have Brandon with a major legislative accomplishment and the other, nothing but talking points. Seems you prefer talking points or everything has to be solved, your “essentials,” to give credit. Reminds me of the gun debate.
2. Why not? Separation of church and state, a fundamental right being trampled and probably, like you and abortion or birth control, I don’t want my tax dollars supporting a cult (religion).
3. Hows that for creative interpretation? LOL.
1. No, I can't tell you. I havent looked into it. You asked a question, I gave an answer. I didn't know there were going to be follow ups when I provided a response.
2. That is a fair point, and I think the reason churches don't get support when providing food and shelter. Personally, I think if there are people living on the streets and going without food (and a lot of people go without food who aren't homeless. Summer breaks and other times away from school are known to be hard for low income families that depend on school suport to provide meals) I'd be fine letting that family decide of they want to turn down a free meal because of who is offering it rather than have the government turn it down for them. But like I said, you have a fair point and that is my opinion on it. Yours is valid here too.
3. I've seen you do better.
1. Was that so difficult? It’s what we’re here for, understanding opposing viewpoints, where they come from, why you believe what you do, etc. Conversations/debates/arguments/complaints on here generally go down side conversations, which sometimes lead to better understandings. If I’m not interested, I wouldn’t waste my time asking.
2. churches shouldn’t get tax payer funds. Period. Govt shouldn’t be in a position of “choosing” one over another, particularly with the collective wealth of some organized religions, Catholic Church, and the scum baggery of store front, pop up, and Jim and Tammy Faye types. Never mind Muslim versus Jewish versus orthodox versus Christianity versus all of the sects, denominations, etc. let the parishioners decide and donate. Free lunches or meals through schools and parks department programs is non-denominational and works.
Who was VP during those years? Oh yea, right, Brandon. Took the lead on mustering passage through the senate. But you know, the repubs are coming out with a plan that's bigger, better, more affordable and beautiful. Can't wait to see it. Maybe it'll be in their budget? Or part of their party platform for 2024? And Abbott & Costello and Deathsantis leading the way. Go Tejas and go Flo Rida! All that and a freedumb shout out too!
From the NYT email blast:
What it once was like
The government benefits began their existence as objects of partisan rancor and harsh criticism. Eventually, though, they became so popular that politicians of both parties promised to protect them.
It was true of Social Security and Medicare. And now the pattern seems to be repeating itself with Obamacare.
Consider what has happened recently in North Carolina: Only a decade after the state’s Republican politicians described the law as dangerous and refused to sign up for its expansion of Medicaid, Republicans and Democrats came together to pass such an expansion. The Republican-controlled House in North Carolina passed the bill 87 to 24, while the Republican-controlled Senate passed it 44 to 2.
“Wow, have things changed,” Jonathan Cohn wrote in a HuffPost piece explaining how the turnabout happened.
Obamacare — the country’s largest expansion of health insurance since Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 — is still not as widely accepted as those programs. North Carolina became the 40th state to agree to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, which means that 10 states still have not, including two of the largest, Texas and Florida. In those states, more than 3.5 million adults lack health insurance as a result.
But the list of states signing up for the program seems to be moving in only one direction: It keeps growing.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
‘Humiliation’
In its growing acceptance, Obamacare resembles other major parts of the federal safety net:
• When Congress was considering Social Security in 1935, conservatives and many business executives bitterly criticized it. One Texas newspaper described Social Security as “a huge sales tax on everybody on behalf of the oldsters.” A Wall Street Journal editorial predicted that the law would eventually be reason for Congress to look back in “humiliation.” Not exactly: Social Security is so popular that it is known as a third rail in American politics.
• When Congress was debating Medicare in the 1960s, Ronald Reagan — then an actor with a rising political profile — attacked the program as a step toward socialism. If it passed, Reagan warned, “We are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.” As president, Reagan praised and supported the program.
• After Congress created Medicaid — a health-insurance program primarily for low-income households — in 1965, some states did not initially join it. Arizona became the last to do so, in 1982.
Roberts and McCain
In the initial years after Obamacare’s passage in 2010, it was similarly divisive. Blue states embraced it, while many red states rejected its voluntary Medicaid expansion. In Washington, congressional Republicans and Donald Trump tried to repeal it. Some Republican-appointed judges invalidated parts of it, and every Republican appointee on the Supreme Court except Chief Justice John Roberts voted to scrap the law.
Twice, it survived by a single vote — first, by Roberts’s 2012 Supreme Court vote, and then by Senator John McCain’s late-night vote against its repeal in 2017. Since then, however, Obamacare has been gaining Republican support.
The next year, voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah — red states, all — passed ballot initiatives expanding Medicaid. Oklahoma, Missouri and South Dakota have since done so. Montana’s state legislature has also approved an expansion.
American Medical Association Communications Division
In 2019, Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, a Democrat, narrowly won election in a Republican state by pledging to protect an earlier Medicaid expansion. In North Carolina, Roy Cooper, also a Democrat, became governor in a 2016 upset partly by campaigning in favor of an expansion — and was able to sign one this week.
(Before it takes effect, Cooper and the legislature must agree on a state budget.)
These developments are a sign of the law’s growing popularity. And that popularity isn’t especially mysterious: In a country with high levels of economic inequality and large numbers of people without health insurance, Obamacare has increased taxes on the affluent to subsidize health care for poor and middle-class families. At root, it is an effort to reduce inequality.
Winning the middle
Even with its flaws — including its often complicated process for signing up for insurance — the law has achieved many of its aims. The number of Americans without health insurance has plummeted. In states that have refused the Medicaid expansion, by contrast, rural hospitals are struggling even more than elsewhere because they do not receive the law’s subsidies for care.
Greenwood Leflore Hospital — in the Mississippi Delta — is an example. It recently closed its intensive-care unit and maternity ward, as our colleague Sharon LaFraniere has reported. Nationwide, states that did not quickly accept Medicaid expansion have accounted for almost three-quarters of rural hospital closures between 2010 and 2021, according to the American Hospital Association.
Similar problems in North Carolina were a reason that Republicans there reconsidered their opposition to Medicaid expansion. “We had these people coming down to Raleigh, farmers, business owners, people from rural areas, they were advocating, telling stories,” one Republican state representative told HuffPost.
Many Republicans still oppose Obamacare, and some hard-right members of Congress also favor cuts to Medicaid — as well as to Medicare and Social Security. In a country as polarized as the United States, there isn’t much true political consensus. But Obamacare has won over the political middle more quickly than seemed likely not so long ago.
Related: The number of people signing up for insurance through Obamacare has surged over the past two years, partly because of a new subsidies signed by President Biden.
Damn you Brandon! And God forbid if you knew this or it was taught to you at some point in your academic career.
Black unemployment rate hits record low 5 percent
During the coronavirus pandemic, the Black unemployment rate soared to an all-time high of 16.8 percent
The Black unemployment rate sank to a record low 5 percent in March, a testament to the economic recovery following the coronavirus pandemic.
Just three years ago, the Black unemployment rate had reached an all-time high of 16.8 percent during the depths of the pandemic, compared to the record White unemployment rate of 14.1 percent.
The March rate breaks the previous record of 5.3 percent set in August 2019 — when President Donald Trump often took credit for Black unemployment rates during his term — according to data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics dating to 1972.
“The unemployment rate is close to the lowest it has been in more than 50 years and a record low for African Americans,” President Biden said in a statement, trumpeting the administration’s pandemic stimulus packages. “Thanks to the policies we have put in place, the recovery is creating good jobs that you can raise a family on.”
Black employment has benefited from the same forces that have helped all workers — a surge in labor market demand coming out of the pandemic fueled by federal stimulus, which has led to one of the fastest job recoveries on record, sending the national unemployment rate to historic lows.
Yet the rise in Black employment also reflects key pandemic-era changes in the labor market. The proportion of Black workers who had a job or were looking for one exceeded the labor force participation rate for White workers in June 2021, a first according to the BLS. In March, the Black labor force participation rate of 64.1 percent was nearly two points higher than that of White workers.
“This is a victory,” said William Spriggs, chief economist for the AFL-CIO and a professor at Howard University. “It’s not only that Black unemployment is low. It’s also that, for the first time, a higher share of Black people are working than White people.”
Black workers made up about 13 percent of the U.S. workforce last year, Census Bureau data shows, but they have an outsized presence in service-sector jobs that recently experienced large gains. Additionally, health care and social assistance programs, restaurants and bars, and the government — all of which tend to disproportionately hire Black workers — added roughly 50,000 jobs apiece in March.
“Since the reopening of the economy, we’ve seen significant job gains and higher wages in in-person service jobs that tend to be dominated by persons of color, especially Black and Hispanic workers,” said Dana M. Peterson, chief economist at the Conference Board.
After six months of scouring the internet for job postings, Frances Holmes, who is Black, got hired in March at a barbecue stand at Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals. During her job search, Holmes, who is 60 and makes $12.90 an hour, said it felt like no one wanted to hire her, despite decades of experience working in the service industry.
“Being a Black woman at my age, it’s difficult finding a job,” Holmes said. “I applied probably to 60 jobs—fast food, retail, hotels, janitorial. This was the first offer.”
Holmes’ employment contract runs out in October, but she said she is hopeful that she will get a full-time offer by then by showing her employer that she works hard and shows up on time.
Experts point to the increased availability of remote work as a reason for increased Black employment. Companies that embraced remote work during the pandemic were often better positioned to boost the numbers of minorities in their workforces. Remote work allowed those companies – including many of the well-paying tech giants – to recruit outside of their headquarters’ region, giving them access to larger swaths of potential candidates. Research suggests that working from home is a particularly attractive option for working mothers and employees of color.
A February 2023 report by Future Forum found that 81 percent of Black desk-based workers preferred a fully remote or hybrid working arrangement compared to 79 percent of White workers. Fifty-nine percent of working mothers said they wanted to work outside of the office three to five days a week compared with just 47 percent of working fathers, the survey found.
Companies could “broaden the geographic scope [they recruited from] so that automatically brought in a talent pool that was historically out of reach,” said Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Remote work also gave employees “an opportunity to work in companies that were elsewhere but remain close to their social and cultural and socioeconomic network.”
Whether these gains will last remains uncertain, as economists predict a recession later this year. Black workers historically have suffered disproportionately during recessions and economic downturns because a larger share of them work in lower wage industries more prone to layoffs.
Additionally, as the technology industry sheds thousands of jobs amid new economic pressures, many of the jobs that tech companies are choosing to cut are the roles that are more likely to be held by women and some people of color, evidence shows.
“The desk jobs are the ones that relate to HR, marketing and sales, [and] a lot of customer service” are among the first to be cut, said Chakravorti of Tufts. “Many of these workers, since they have not really been in the office, they have not had the chance necessarily to build some of those personal relationships with senior management and that also affects their ability to have a champion inside the company.”
Indeed, Peterson, the Conference Board economist, says she worries that the gains for Black workers could be short-lived, especially as the economy slows. She expects a “brief” recession this year that could lead to layoffs in entertainment, transportation and other service jobs. Although those employers have been quick to bulk up in recent years, they could also be among the first to feel the pinch of a slowing economy.
Historically the Black unemployment rate in the United States has tended to be twice the White unemployment rate due to systemic racism and other broad structural forces, such as differences in access to education and higher-paying jobs, labor economists say.
Several economists credited the White House stimulus package of 2021 for kick-starting the labor market into overdrive, in a way that benefited many groups of workers. The unemployment rate for Latinos for March had dropped to 4.6 percent, which is low, although not a record.
Slower economic recoveries have exacerbated racial inequality as Black workers tended to be shut out of the labor market longer than White workers, shrinking their wealth, professional networks and skills.
“Weak recoveries churn out racial inequality and lost opportunity,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “Our fast jobs recovering has kept that from happening. That is due to in large part in relief and recovery packages."
For now, the record low Black unemployment rate is also a win for the Federal Reserve, which has been accused of widening economic inequality. With its years-long policy of lower interest rates that help more workers get and keep jobs, those policies also boost wealth for people who hold investments or want to buy homes, which can bypass Americans of color.
Fed officials have argued that a tight labor market is key to reaching groups who have, historically, been left on the economic margins.
Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell often says his goal is to works toward a labor market that lifts everyone up.
“I would go back to the labor market that we had in 2018. ‘19, ‘20” Powell said in a December news conference. “What that looked like was, wage increases for the people at the lowest end of the income spectrum were the largest. The gaps between racial groups and gender groups were at their smallest in recorded history…So that seems like something that would be really good for the economy and for the country, if we could get back to that.”
Well well well. It looks like the other shoe is finally dropping on Bejing Biden!
"Joe Biden Is A Criminal" Says Ex-Obama Whistleblower Alleging Family "Kickback Scheme"
BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, APR 14, 2023 - 06:05 AM
A former staffer who worked in the Obama administration is blowing the whistle on the Bidens - and has accused President Biden of being involved in a "kickback scheme" directly related to his son Hunter's overseas business dealings.
Mike McCormick, a stenographer in the White House for 15 years who worked with Biden from 2011 to 2017, told Fox & Friends First that the FBI has completely ignored him despite his willingness to testify under oath before the grand jury investigating Hunter.
"In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you're lying to them, you go to jail. I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth, and I'm not going to jail," McCormick said on Thursday. "Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there's more... Obama officials involved in it, I believe."
McCormick specifically noted a key dialogue involving then-VP Biden, aide Jake Sullivan and the press on Air Force Two before an April 21, 2014 trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, in which Sullivan - now Biden's national security adviser - outlined a US investment in the Ukrainian energy sector just days after Hunter joined the board of Burisma.
Months after the trip, Congress allocated $50 million to Ukraine's energy market.
"I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that's what I recorded, and that's in a White House transcript," said McCormick, adding: "In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is. It's a senior administration official. I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family."
Hunter joined the board of the Ukrainian natural gas firm on April 18, just three days before Biden and his team traveled to Kyiv. But that critical piece of the puzzle was not made public until May 12.
McCormick argued the timeline of the events suggests that Biden funneled American money overseas to "enrich" himself and his family, and used his own influence to aid his son's rookie energy career.
The former stenographer made it clear he wants to present the information under oath before the grand jury in Delaware probing Hunter's business dealings, which is led by U.S. Attorney David Weiss. -Fox News
A federal probe into Hunter Biden's suspected tax and foreign lobbying violations began in 2018, after banks filed dozens of suspicious activity reports (SARs) regarding foreign transactions that were flagged. Some of the SARs involved money funneled from "China and other foreign nations," sources close to the probe tell Fox.
"If David Weiss can't have me in front of his grand jury explaining what I know as a witness, that's a fraudulent grand jury," said McCormick. "It's a fraudulent use of the American judicial system to cover for Barack Obama and Joe Biden's crimes in office."
McCormick says the information he has incriminates Biden - and likely other officials, in connection with the alleged influence peddling scandal.
"If I went in there, I would tell them to have Barack Obama called in as a witness because he's part of the conspiracy. He's an ex-president. He has to answer who was in charge of this, putting Joe Biden into this role? Did Barack Obama know about it?" he continued.
"There's evidence I've seen and put in my Substack on April 16th, so two days before Hunter joins Joe Biden is with Hunter in the West Wing. They have a meeting, and then later that day in the evening, Joe Biden spends a day in the limousine in the back of Barack Obama's limousine in western Pennsylvania."
Well well well. It looks like the other shoe is finally dropping on Bejing Biden!
"Joe Biden Is A Criminal" Says Ex-Obama Whistleblower Alleging Family "Kickback Scheme"
BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, APR 14, 2023 - 06:05 AM
A former staffer who worked in the Obama administration is blowing the whistle on the Bidens - and has accused President Biden of being involved in a "kickback scheme" directly related to his son Hunter's overseas business dealings.
Mike McCormick, a stenographer in the White House for 15 years who worked with Biden from 2011 to 2017, told Fox & Friends First that the FBI has completely ignored him despite his willingness to testify under oath before the grand jury investigating Hunter.
"In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you're lying to them, you go to jail. I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth, and I'm not going to jail," McCormick said on Thursday. "Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there's more... Obama officials involved in it, I believe."
McCormick specifically noted a key dialogue involving then-VP Biden, aide Jake Sullivan and the press on Air Force Two before an April 21, 2014 trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, in which Sullivan - now Biden's national security adviser - outlined a US investment in the Ukrainian energy sector just days after Hunter joined the board of Burisma.
Months after the trip, Congress allocated $50 million to Ukraine's energy market.
"I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that's what I recorded, and that's in a White House transcript," said McCormick, adding: "In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is. It's a senior administration official. I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family."
Hunter joined the board of the Ukrainian natural gas firm on April 18, just three days before Biden and his team traveled to Kyiv. But that critical piece of the puzzle was not made public until May 12.
McCormick argued the timeline of the events suggests that Biden funneled American money overseas to "enrich" himself and his family, and used his own influence to aid his son's rookie energy career.
The former stenographer made it clear he wants to present the information under oath before the grand jury in Delaware probing Hunter's business dealings, which is led by U.S. Attorney David Weiss. -Fox News
A federal probe into Hunter Biden's suspected tax and foreign lobbying violations began in 2018, after banks filed dozens of suspicious activity reports (SARs) regarding foreign transactions that were flagged. Some of the SARs involved money funneled from "China and other foreign nations," sources close to the probe tell Fox.
"If David Weiss can't have me in front of his grand jury explaining what I know as a witness, that's a fraudulent grand jury," said McCormick. "It's a fraudulent use of the American judicial system to cover for Barack Obama and Joe Biden's crimes in office."
McCormick says the information he has incriminates Biden - and likely other officials, in connection with the alleged influence peddling scandal.
"If I went in there, I would tell them to have Barack Obama called in as a witness because he's part of the conspiracy. He's an ex-president. He has to answer who was in charge of this, putting Joe Biden into this role? Did Barack Obama know about it?" he continued.
"There's evidence I've seen and put in my Substack on April 16th, so two days before Hunter joins Joe Biden is with Hunter in the West Wing. They have a meeting, and then later that day in the evening, Joe Biden spends a day in the limousine in the back of Barack Obama's limousine in western Pennsylvania."
i shouldn't have to say this, but without a link, most of us, like me, stop reading at tyler durden.
do better if you want us to read your posts and have a discussion.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.- Hemingway
Well well well. It looks like the other shoe is finally dropping on Bejing Biden!
"Joe Biden Is A Criminal" Says Ex-Obama Whistleblower Alleging Family "Kickback Scheme"
BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, APR 14, 2023 - 06:05 AM
A former staffer who worked in the Obama administration is blowing the whistle on the Bidens - and has accused President Biden of being involved in a "kickback scheme" directly related to his son Hunter's overseas business dealings.
Mike McCormick, a stenographer in the White House for 15 years who worked with Biden from 2011 to 2017, told Fox & Friends First that the FBI has completely ignored him despite his willingness to testify under oath before the grand jury investigating Hunter.
"In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you're lying to them, you go to jail. I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth, and I'm not going to jail," McCormick said on Thursday. "Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there's more... Obama officials involved in it, I believe."
McCormick specifically noted a key dialogue involving then-VP Biden, aide Jake Sullivan and the press on Air Force Two before an April 21, 2014 trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, in which Sullivan - now Biden's national security adviser - outlined a US investment in the Ukrainian energy sector just days after Hunter joined the board of Burisma.
Months after the trip, Congress allocated $50 million to Ukraine's energy market.
"I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that's what I recorded, and that's in a White House transcript," said McCormick, adding: "In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is. It's a senior administration official. I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family."
Hunter joined the board of the Ukrainian natural gas firm on April 18, just three days before Biden and his team traveled to Kyiv. But that critical piece of the puzzle was not made public until May 12.
McCormick argued the timeline of the events suggests that Biden funneled American money overseas to "enrich" himself and his family, and used his own influence to aid his son's rookie energy career.
The former stenographer made it clear he wants to present the information under oath before the grand jury in Delaware probing Hunter's business dealings, which is led by U.S. Attorney David Weiss. -Fox News
A federal probe into Hunter Biden's suspected tax and foreign lobbying violations began in 2018, after banks filed dozens of suspicious activity reports (SARs) regarding foreign transactions that were flagged. Some of the SARs involved money funneled from "China and other foreign nations," sources close to the probe tell Fox.
"If David Weiss can't have me in front of his grand jury explaining what I know as a witness, that's a fraudulent grand jury," said McCormick. "It's a fraudulent use of the American judicial system to cover for Barack Obama and Joe Biden's crimes in office."
McCormick says the information he has incriminates Biden - and likely other officials, in connection with the alleged influence peddling scandal.
"If I went in there, I would tell them to have Barack Obama called in as a witness because he's part of the conspiracy. He's an ex-president. He has to answer who was in charge of this, putting Joe Biden into this role? Did Barack Obama know about it?" he continued.
"There's evidence I've seen and put in my Substack on April 16th, so two days before Hunter joins Joe Biden is with Hunter in the West Wing. They have a meeting, and then later that day in the evening, Joe Biden spends a day in the limousine in the back of Barack Obama's limousine in western Pennsylvania."
Wrong thread. Keep the laughs coming. Clarice Thomas, a SCOTUS, caught violating the law, and you've got to go back to buh, buh, buh, HUNTER's LAPTOP!!!!
Well well well. It looks like the other shoe is finally dropping on Bejing Biden!
"Joe Biden Is A Criminal" Says Ex-Obama Whistleblower Alleging Family "Kickback Scheme"
BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, APR 14, 2023 - 06:05 AM
A former staffer who worked in the Obama administration is blowing the whistle on the Bidens - and has accused President Biden of being involved in a "kickback scheme" directly related to his son Hunter's overseas business dealings.
Mike McCormick, a stenographer in the White House for 15 years who worked with Biden from 2011 to 2017, told Fox & Friends First that the FBI has completely ignored him despite his willingness to testify under oath before the grand jury investigating Hunter.
"In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you're lying to them, you go to jail. I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth, and I'm not going to jail," McCormick said on Thursday. "Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there's more... Obama officials involved in it, I believe."
McCormick specifically noted a key dialogue involving then-VP Biden, aide Jake Sullivan and the press on Air Force Two before an April 21, 2014 trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, in which Sullivan - now Biden's national security adviser - outlined a US investment in the Ukrainian energy sector just days after Hunter joined the board of Burisma.
Months after the trip, Congress allocated $50 million to Ukraine's energy market.
"I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that's what I recorded, and that's in a White House transcript," said McCormick, adding: "In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is. It's a senior administration official. I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family."
Hunter joined the board of the Ukrainian natural gas firm on April 18, just three days before Biden and his team traveled to Kyiv. But that critical piece of the puzzle was not made public until May 12.
McCormick argued the timeline of the events suggests that Biden funneled American money overseas to "enrich" himself and his family, and used his own influence to aid his son's rookie energy career.
The former stenographer made it clear he wants to present the information under oath before the grand jury in Delaware probing Hunter's business dealings, which is led by U.S. Attorney David Weiss. -Fox News
A federal probe into Hunter Biden's suspected tax and foreign lobbying violations began in 2018, after banks filed dozens of suspicious activity reports (SARs) regarding foreign transactions that were flagged. Some of the SARs involved money funneled from "China and other foreign nations," sources close to the probe tell Fox.
"If David Weiss can't have me in front of his grand jury explaining what I know as a witness, that's a fraudulent grand jury," said McCormick. "It's a fraudulent use of the American judicial system to cover for Barack Obama and Joe Biden's crimes in office."
McCormick says the information he has incriminates Biden - and likely other officials, in connection with the alleged influence peddling scandal.
"If I went in there, I would tell them to have Barack Obama called in as a witness because he's part of the conspiracy. He's an ex-president. He has to answer who was in charge of this, putting Joe Biden into this role? Did Barack Obama know about it?" he continued.
"There's evidence I've seen and put in my Substack on April 16th, so two days before Hunter joins Joe Biden is with Hunter in the West Wing. They have a meeting, and then later that day in the evening, Joe Biden spends a day in the limousine in the back of Barack Obama's limousine in western Pennsylvania."
TJ - I read this article yesterday on Fox News. Explain this leap of faith to me. Here is your bold and what you think is the important part.
"I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that's what I recorded, and that's in a White House transcript," said McCormick, adding: "In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is. It's a senior administration official. I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family."
The conclusion being made here is that because the US is interested in Ukraine fracking, and Burisma is an oil company (including fracking) and Hunter is on the board, ERGO, this is criminal.
I have news for you, that's not criminal. If you can point to the law, point it out. This stenographer has no proof of a crime. That's why the FBI isn't pursuing it, because it isn't criminal. Now maybe you can argue that no family member of a politician should work for a company that does business with the US gov't, and you can make that argument. But it isn't criminal today.
As an example, you could say that no member of Trump's family, Pence's, all the way down the line can work for Microsoft, Amazon, AWS, Northrup, Raytheon or the thousands of companies that the US gov't does business with. But that would be ridiculous. This is exactly the accusation being made here.
Well well well. It looks like the other shoe is finally dropping on Bejing Biden!
"Joe Biden Is A Criminal" Says Ex-Obama Whistleblower Alleging Family "Kickback Scheme"
BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, APR 14, 2023 - 06:05 AM
A former staffer who worked in the Obama administration is blowing the whistle on the Bidens - and has accused President Biden of being involved in a "kickback scheme" directly related to his son Hunter's overseas business dealings.
Mike McCormick, a stenographer in the White House for 15 years who worked with Biden from 2011 to 2017, told Fox & Friends First that the FBI has completely ignored him despite his willingness to testify under oath before the grand jury investigating Hunter.
"In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you're lying to them, you go to jail. I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth, and I'm not going to jail," McCormick said on Thursday. "Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there's more... Obama officials involved in it, I believe."
McCormick specifically noted a key dialogue involving then-VP Biden, aide Jake Sullivan and the press on Air Force Two before an April 21, 2014 trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, in which Sullivan - now Biden's national security adviser - outlined a US investment in the Ukrainian energy sector just days after Hunter joined the board of Burisma.
Months after the trip, Congress allocated $50 million to Ukraine's energy market.
"I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that's what I recorded, and that's in a White House transcript," said McCormick, adding: "In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is. It's a senior administration official. I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family."
Hunter joined the board of the Ukrainian natural gas firm on April 18, just three days before Biden and his team traveled to Kyiv. But that critical piece of the puzzle was not made public until May 12.
McCormick argued the timeline of the events suggests that Biden funneled American money overseas to "enrich" himself and his family, and used his own influence to aid his son's rookie energy career.
The former stenographer made it clear he wants to present the information under oath before the grand jury in Delaware probing Hunter's business dealings, which is led by U.S. Attorney David Weiss. -Fox News
A federal probe into Hunter Biden's suspected tax and foreign lobbying violations began in 2018, after banks filed dozens of suspicious activity reports (SARs) regarding foreign transactions that were flagged. Some of the SARs involved money funneled from "China and other foreign nations," sources close to the probe tell Fox.
"If David Weiss can't have me in front of his grand jury explaining what I know as a witness, that's a fraudulent grand jury," said McCormick. "It's a fraudulent use of the American judicial system to cover for Barack Obama and Joe Biden's crimes in office."
McCormick says the information he has incriminates Biden - and likely other officials, in connection with the alleged influence peddling scandal.
"If I went in there, I would tell them to have Barack Obama called in as a witness because he's part of the conspiracy. He's an ex-president. He has to answer who was in charge of this, putting Joe Biden into this role? Did Barack Obama know about it?" he continued.
"There's evidence I've seen and put in my Substack on April 16th, so two days before Hunter joins Joe Biden is with Hunter in the West Wing. They have a meeting, and then later that day in the evening, Joe Biden spends a day in the limousine in the back of Barack Obama's limousine in western Pennsylvania."
You working with Maggie Three Names? And can I borrow some money?
In September 2009, news reports identified Daniel Ivandjiiski, a Bulgarian-born, U.S.-educated,[d] former hedge-fund trader, who was barred from the securities industry in September 2008 for earning US$780 from an insider trade by FINRA,[42] as the founder of the site, and reported that "Tyler Durden" was a pseudonym for Ivandjiiski.[2][43] FINRA rulings show Ivandjiiski worked for 3 years at New York investment bank, Jefferies & Co.,[44] as well a number of hedge funds, the last of which was Wexford Capital LLC, a fund led by former Goldman Sachs traders. [45] One female site contributor, who spoke to New York magazine in an interview arranged by Ivandjiiski, said "up to 40" people could post under the "Tyler Durden" pseudonym.[2] The same New York magazine article, published on 27 September 2009, stated that Ivandjiiski's father was Krassimir Ivandjiiski,[2]a Bulgarian publisher and editor of the pro-Russia right-wing conspiracy theory website Strogo Sekretno ("Top Secret"),[1] and monthly publication Bulgarian Confidential, since 1994.[e][1]
The domain zerohedge.com is registered in Bulgaria to a company called ABC Media Ltd, managed by Krassimir Ivandjiiski.[1]
In a 29 April 2016 Bloomberg article "Unmasking Zero Hedge",[27] the authors writing as "Tyler Durden" were revealed as Ivandjiiski, then age 37, Tim Backshall, age 45 (a credit derivatives strategist),[47] and Colin Lokey, age 32 (a Seeking Alpha staff writer).[48] Lokey, the newest member, who joined in 2015, publicly revealed himself and the other two, when he left the site in April 2016.[49] Ivandjiiski confirmed the three men "had been the only Tyler Durdens on the payroll" since Lokey joined in 2015.[27] Lokey said he was paid $6,000 per month, and received a bonus of $50,000, earning over $100,000 in 2015.[27] According to Ivandjiiski, the blog generates revenue from online advertising (there is no subscription service).[27]
In March 2020, Bulgarian litigation between Krassimir Ivandjiiski and U.S. journalist Seth Hettena revealed further details about the Ivandjiiski family and the site's ownership.[1]
Site bans
On 12 March 2019, Bloomberg reported that Facebook had banned users from sharing Zero Hedge posts three days earlier.[36]MarketWatch, noting that Zero Hedge is a "frequent critic of Facebook", reported that the ban was lifted later that day with Facebook saying that the ban was a "mistake with our automation to detect spam".[37]Business Insider, describing Zero Hedge as "a favorite of City and Wall Street traders, known for its anti-establishment and bearish slant on financial topics", noted that Donald Trump Jr. and Nigel Farage raised objections to Facebook's censure of Zero Hedge.[50]
On 20 January 2020, Zero Hedge's Twitter account, which then had 670,000 followers, was "permanently suspended" from Twitter for violating their platform manipulation policy.[14][54] Bloomberg reported that Zero Hedge had been informed by Twitter that the suspension was as a result of an article titled: "Is This The Man Behind The Global CoronavirusPandemic?", in which they doxed a Chinese virologist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.[29][15][55] On 12 June 2020, Twitter reinstated the account after an appeal from Zero Hedge and stated that the suspension was an error.[38]
Zero Hedge was banned from the Google Ads platform on 17 June 2020. An email from Google to NBC said that Zero Hedge violated Google's content policy that "explicitly prohibit[s] derogatory content that promotes hatred, intolerance, violence or discrimination based on race from monetizing." The violating comments were found on stories related to George Floyd protests.[56][57] Google lifted the ban in July 2020, after the management of Zero Hedge began moderating comments.[58]
Zero Hedge revealed on 17 June 2020 that PayPal had, like Google, deplatformed the site,[59] and they would only be able to accept cryptocurrency payments in the future.[60]
Following a community discussion in July 2020, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia ruled that Zero Hedge did not meet the standards for a reliable source as understood by the community and could not be cited as a source for any claims of fact in the encyclopedia.[61][circular reference]
God this is so revealing, I love it. You know, I hear real estate in Moscow is pretty cheap these days. Suckers.
The 29 April 2016 "Unmasking Zero Hedge" article by Bloomberg quoted former website staffer Colin Lokey as saying: "I can't be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Trump anymore. It's wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but it will kill your brand over the long run. This isn't a revolution. It's a joke." Lokey told Bloomberg that he was pressured to frame issues in a way he felt was "disingenuous," summarizing its political stances as "Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."[27] Lokey provided chat transcripts in which Ivandjiiski refers to America's "silent majority" as "beastly", while Backshall acknowledges life in the U.S. is bad "outside of my bubble".[27] Wallace-Wells observed that the site demonstrated a pro-Russia bias, stating the site had a "pointed" Russophilia.[33]
that Zero Hedge was also used as a lead-in for a 2016 New Yorker piece about the alt-right, despite its financial focus and a political bent that is more Drudge than Richard Spencer."[34]
In January 2020, when the site was removed from Twitter, BuzzFeed News described Zero Hedge as "pro-Trump" and "far-right",[29] while reporting on the removal, The Washington Post said that Zero Hedge "In recent years, the blog has amplified right-wing conspiracy theories on a range of topics".[15]
Alleged Russian Influence
In March 2020, American journalist Seth Hettena wrote an opinion-piece in The New Republictitled "Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse?", and provided details on the links between Krassimir Ivandjiiski (the site publisher's Bulgarian father), and Soviet-era activities in propaganda, revealed during litigation initiated by the father against Hettena in the Bulgarian courts.[1] Hettena commented that Zero Hedge has become "a forum for the hateful, conspiracy-driven voices of the angry white men of the alt-right. Racists, anti-Semites, extreme right-wingers, and conspiracy nuts were an underserved audience, and, as it turns out, a profitable one."[1]
In February 2022, intelligence officials from the United States claimed that Zero Hedge has amplified Russian propaganda by publishing articles written by Russian state-run media.[83][84][85][86][87]
that old bastard wears flip flops as a reminder to trump hating/loving republicans that he walks all over them.
Joe Biden has been the most bland, run of the mill politician for the entirety of all our lives. The fact that the maga right hates him so much and believes he is some kind of criminal mastermind is just the most ridiculous thing.
100%. he actually, literally, reminds me of my grandpa. great guy, slightly racist when drunk, super successful in his career, loves his family, etc. and he looked like biden too. lol
that old bastard wears flip flops as a reminder to trump hating/loving republicans that he walks all over them.
Joe Biden has been the most bland, run of the mill politician for the entirety of all our lives. The fact that the maga right hates him so much and believes he is some kind of criminal mastermind is just the most ridiculous thing.
Right, Biden is simultaneously a master criminal and most incompetent man on Earth. He can't eat ice cream, but he can steal elections and run a seamless criminal organization for 40 years and leave no trace that allows him to be caught. It's awesome how many diametrically opposed arguments MAGA makes on a daily basis.
that old bastard wears flip flops as a reminder to trump hating/loving republicans that he walks all over them.
Joe Biden has been the most bland, run of the mill politician for the entirety of all our lives. The fact that the maga right hates him so much and believes he is some kind of criminal mastermind is just the most ridiculous thing.
Right, Biden is simultaneously a master criminal and most incompetent man on Earth. He can't eat ice cream, but he can steal elections and run a seamless criminal organization for 40 years and leave no trace that allows him to be caught. It's awesome how many diametrically opposed arguments MAGA makes on a daily basis.
to be fair, this has been a left wing talking point as well about trump; that he is fucking stupid but also culpable in several corruption scandals.
that old bastard wears flip flops as a reminder to trump hating/loving republicans that he walks all over them.
Joe Biden has been the most bland, run of the mill politician for the entirety of all our lives. The fact that the maga right hates him so much and believes he is some kind of criminal mastermind is just the most ridiculous thing.
Right, Biden is simultaneously a master criminal and most incompetent man on Earth. He can't eat ice cream, but he can steal elections and run a seamless criminal organization for 40 years and leave no trace that allows him to be caught. It's awesome how many diametrically opposed arguments MAGA makes on a daily basis.
to be fair, this has been a left wing talking point as well about trump; that he is fucking stupid but also culpable in several corruption scandals.
yeah but his corruption appears to be provable. He is indicted and under investigation in other ones.
I don't think Trump is stupid. I think he's a low life and very emotionally manipulative.
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Why not? Separation of church and state, a fundamental right being trampled and probably, like you and abortion or birth control, I don’t want my tax dollars supporting a cult (religion).
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2. That is a fair point, and I think the reason churches don't get support when providing food and shelter. Personally, I think if there are people living on the streets and going without food (and a lot of people go without food who aren't homeless. Summer breaks and other times away from school are known to be hard for low income families that depend on school suport to provide meals) I'd be fine letting that family decide of they want to turn down a free meal because of who is offering it rather than have the government turn it down for them. But like I said, you have a fair point and that is my opinion on it. Yours is valid here too.
3. I've seen you do better.
2. churches shouldn’t get tax payer funds. Period. Govt shouldn’t be in a position of “choosing” one over another, particularly with the collective wealth of some organized religions, Catholic Church, and the scum baggery of store front, pop up, and Jim and Tammy Faye types. Never mind Muslim versus Jewish versus orthodox versus Christianity versus all of the sects, denominations, etc. let the parishioners decide and donate. Free lunches or meals through schools and parks department programs is non-denominational and works.
3. Tough week.
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Black unemployment rate hits record low 5 percent
During the coronavirus pandemic, the Black unemployment rate soared to an all-time high of 16.8 percent
The Black unemployment rate sank to a record low 5 percent in March, a testament to the economic recovery following the coronavirus pandemic.
Just three years ago, the Black unemployment rate had reached an all-time high of 16.8 percent during the depths of the pandemic, compared to the record White unemployment rate of 14.1 percent.
The March rate breaks the previous record of 5.3 percent set in August 2019 — when President Donald Trump often took credit for Black unemployment rates during his term — according to data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics dating to 1972.
“The unemployment rate is close to the lowest it has been in more than 50 years and a record low for African Americans,” President Biden said in a statement, trumpeting the administration’s pandemic stimulus packages. “Thanks to the policies we have put in place, the recovery is creating good jobs that you can raise a family on.”
Black employment has benefited from the same forces that have helped all workers — a surge in labor market demand coming out of the pandemic fueled by federal stimulus, which has led to one of the fastest job recoveries on record, sending the national unemployment rate to historic lows.
Yet the rise in Black employment also reflects key pandemic-era changes in the labor market. The proportion of Black workers who had a job or were looking for one exceeded the labor force participation rate for White workers in June 2021, a first according to the BLS. In March, the Black labor force participation rate of 64.1 percent was nearly two points higher than that of White workers.
“This is a victory,” said William Spriggs, chief economist for the AFL-CIO and a professor at Howard University. “It’s not only that Black unemployment is low. It’s also that, for the first time, a higher share of Black people are working than White people.”
Black workers made up about 13 percent of the U.S. workforce last year, Census Bureau data shows, but they have an outsized presence in service-sector jobs that recently experienced large gains. Additionally, health care and social assistance programs, restaurants and bars, and the government — all of which tend to disproportionately hire Black workers — added roughly 50,000 jobs apiece in March.
“Since the reopening of the economy, we’ve seen significant job gains and higher wages in in-person service jobs that tend to be dominated by persons of color, especially Black and Hispanic workers,” said Dana M. Peterson, chief economist at the Conference Board.
After six months of scouring the internet for job postings, Frances Holmes, who is Black, got hired in March at a barbecue stand at Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals. During her job search, Holmes, who is 60 and makes $12.90 an hour, said it felt like no one wanted to hire her, despite decades of experience working in the service industry.
“Being a Black woman at my age, it’s difficult finding a job,” Holmes said. “I applied probably to 60 jobs—fast food, retail, hotels, janitorial. This was the first offer.”
Holmes’ employment contract runs out in October, but she said she is hopeful that she will get a full-time offer by then by showing her employer that she works hard and shows up on time.
Experts point to the increased availability of remote work as a reason for increased Black employment. Companies that embraced remote work during the pandemic were often better positioned to boost the numbers of minorities in their workforces. Remote work allowed those companies – including many of the well-paying tech giants – to recruit outside of their headquarters’ region, giving them access to larger swaths of potential candidates. Research suggests that working from home is a particularly attractive option for working mothers and employees of color.
A February 2023 report by Future Forum found that 81 percent of Black desk-based workers preferred a fully remote or hybrid working arrangement compared to 79 percent of White workers. Fifty-nine percent of working mothers said they wanted to work outside of the office three to five days a week compared with just 47 percent of working fathers, the survey found.
Companies could “broaden the geographic scope [they recruited from] so that automatically brought in a talent pool that was historically out of reach,” said Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Remote work also gave employees “an opportunity to work in companies that were elsewhere but remain close to their social and cultural and socioeconomic network.”
Whether these gains will last remains uncertain, as economists predict a recession later this year. Black workers historically have suffered disproportionately during recessions and economic downturns because a larger share of them work in lower wage industries more prone to layoffs.
Additionally, as the technology industry sheds thousands of jobs amid new economic pressures, many of the jobs that tech companies are choosing to cut are the roles that are more likely to be held by women and some people of color, evidence shows.
After layoffs, Meta, tech companies face uphill battle to boost diversity
“The desk jobs are the ones that relate to HR, marketing and sales, [and] a lot of customer service” are among the first to be cut, said Chakravorti of Tufts. “Many of these workers, since they have not really been in the office, they have not had the chance necessarily to build some of those personal relationships with senior management and that also affects their ability to have a champion inside the company.”
Indeed, Peterson, the Conference Board economist, says she worries that the gains for Black workers could be short-lived, especially as the economy slows. She expects a “brief” recession this year that could lead to layoffs in entertainment, transportation and other service jobs. Although those employers have been quick to bulk up in recent years, they could also be among the first to feel the pinch of a slowing economy.
Historically the Black unemployment rate in the United States has tended to be twice the White unemployment rate due to systemic racism and other broad structural forces, such as differences in access to education and higher-paying jobs, labor economists say.
Several economists credited the White House stimulus package of 2021 for kick-starting the labor market into overdrive, in a way that benefited many groups of workers. The unemployment rate for Latinos for March had dropped to 4.6 percent, which is low, although not a record.
Slower economic recoveries have exacerbated racial inequality as Black workers tended to be shut out of the labor market longer than White workers, shrinking their wealth, professional networks and skills.
“Weak recoveries churn out racial inequality and lost opportunity,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “Our fast jobs recovering has kept that from happening. That is due to in large part in relief and recovery packages."
For now, the record low Black unemployment rate is also a win for the Federal Reserve, which has been accused of widening economic inequality. With its years-long policy of lower interest rates that help more workers get and keep jobs, those policies also boost wealth for people who hold investments or want to buy homes, which can bypass Americans of color.
Fed officials have argued that a tight labor market is key to reaching groups who have, historically, been left on the economic margins.
Pandemic led to sharp spike in Black, Asian and Latino homeownership
Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell often says his goal is to works toward a labor market that lifts everyone up.
“I would go back to the labor market that we had in 2018. ‘19, ‘20” Powell said in a December news conference. “What that looked like was, wage increases for the people at the lowest end of the income spectrum were the largest. The gaps between racial groups and gender groups were at their smallest in recorded history…So that seems like something that would be really good for the economy and for the country, if we could get back to that.”
Black unemployment rate hits record low - The Washington Post
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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/cpi-march-2023-.html
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"Joe Biden Is A Criminal" Says Ex-Obama Whistleblower Alleging Family "Kickback Scheme"
A former staffer who worked in the Obama administration is blowing the whistle on the Bidens - and has accused President Biden of being involved in a "kickback scheme" directly related to his son Hunter's overseas business dealings.
Mike McCormick, a stenographer in the White House for 15 years who worked with Biden from 2011 to 2017, told Fox & Friends First that the FBI has completely ignored him despite his willingness to testify under oath before the grand jury investigating Hunter.
"In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you're lying to them, you go to jail. I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth, and I'm not going to jail," McCormick said on Thursday. "Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there's more... Obama officials involved in it, I believe."
McCormick specifically noted a key dialogue involving then-VP Biden, aide Jake Sullivan and the press on Air Force Two before an April 21, 2014 trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, in which Sullivan - now Biden's national security adviser - outlined a US investment in the Ukrainian energy sector just days after Hunter joined the board of Burisma.
Months after the trip, Congress allocated $50 million to Ukraine's energy market.
"I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that's what I recorded, and that's in a White House transcript," said McCormick, adding: "In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is. It's a senior administration official. I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family."
A federal probe into Hunter Biden's suspected tax and foreign lobbying violations began in 2018, after banks filed dozens of suspicious activity reports (SARs) regarding foreign transactions that were flagged. Some of the SARs involved money funneled from "China and other foreign nations," sources close to the probe tell Fox.
"If David Weiss can't have me in front of his grand jury explaining what I know as a witness, that's a fraudulent grand jury," said McCormick. "It's a fraudulent use of the American judicial system to cover for Barack Obama and Joe Biden's crimes in office."
McCormick says the information he has incriminates Biden - and likely other officials, in connection with the alleged influence peddling scandal.
"If I went in there, I would tell them to have Barack Obama called in as a witness because he's part of the conspiracy. He's an ex-president. He has to answer who was in charge of this, putting Joe Biden into this role? Did Barack Obama know about it?" he continued.
"There's evidence I've seen and put in my Substack on April 16th, so two days before Hunter joins Joe Biden is with Hunter in the West Wing. They have a meeting, and then later that day in the evening, Joe Biden spends a day in the limousine in the back of Barack Obama's limousine in western Pennsylvania."
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Over time, Zero Hedge expanded into non-financial political content,[c] including conspiracy theories and fringe rhetoric[3][28] advancing radical right,[15][29] alt-right,[30][31][32] and pro-Russia positions.[1][33][34][35] Zero Hedge's non-financial commentary has led to multiple site bans by global social media platforms, although its 2019 Facebook ban[36][37] and 2020 Twitter ban were later reversed.[15][38]
Zero Hedge in-house content is posted under the pseudonym "Tyler Durden"; the founder and main editor was identified as Daniel Ivandjiiski.[27]
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"I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks about fracking. His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking, and that's what I recorded, and that's in a White House transcript," said McCormick, adding: "In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is. It's a senior administration official. I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family."
The conclusion being made here is that because the US is interested in Ukraine fracking, and Burisma is an oil company (including fracking) and Hunter is on the board, ERGO, this is criminal.
I have news for you, that's not criminal. If you can point to the law, point it out. This stenographer has no proof of a crime. That's why the FBI isn't pursuing it, because it isn't criminal. Now maybe you can argue that no family member of a politician should work for a company that does business with the US gov't, and you can make that argument. But it isn't criminal today.
As an example, you could say that no member of Trump's family, Pence's, all the way down the line can work for Microsoft, Amazon, AWS, Northrup, Raytheon or the thousands of companies that the US gov't does business with. But that would be ridiculous. This is exactly the accusation being made here.
In September 2009, news reports identified Daniel Ivandjiiski, a Bulgarian-born, U.S.-educated,[d] former hedge-fund trader, who was barred from the securities industry in September 2008 for earning US$780 from an insider trade by FINRA,[42] as the founder of the site, and reported that "Tyler Durden" was a pseudonym for Ivandjiiski.[2][43] FINRA rulings show Ivandjiiski worked for 3 years at New York investment bank, Jefferies & Co.,[44] as well a number of hedge funds, the last of which was Wexford Capital LLC, a fund led by former Goldman Sachs traders. [45] One female site contributor, who spoke to New York magazine in an interview arranged by Ivandjiiski, said "up to 40" people could post under the "Tyler Durden" pseudonym.[2] The same New York magazine article, published on 27 September 2009, stated that Ivandjiiski's father was Krassimir Ivandjiiski,[2] a Bulgarian publisher and editor of the pro-Russia right-wing conspiracy theory website Strogo Sekretno ("Top Secret"),[1] and monthly publication Bulgarian Confidential, since 1994.[e][1]
The domain zerohedge.com is registered in Bulgaria to a company called ABC Media Ltd, managed by Krassimir Ivandjiiski.[1]
In a 29 April 2016 Bloomberg article "Unmasking Zero Hedge",[27] the authors writing as "Tyler Durden" were revealed as Ivandjiiski, then age 37, Tim Backshall, age 45 (a credit derivatives strategist),[47] and Colin Lokey, age 32 (a Seeking Alpha staff writer).[48] Lokey, the newest member, who joined in 2015, publicly revealed himself and the other two, when he left the site in April 2016.[49] Ivandjiiski confirmed the three men "had been the only Tyler Durdens on the payroll" since Lokey joined in 2015.[27] Lokey said he was paid $6,000 per month, and received a bonus of $50,000, earning over $100,000 in 2015.[27] According to Ivandjiiski, the blog generates revenue from online advertising (there is no subscription service).[27]
In March 2020, Bulgarian litigation between Krassimir Ivandjiiski and U.S. journalist Seth Hettena revealed further details about the Ivandjiiski family and the site's ownership.[1]
Site bans
On 12 March 2019, Bloomberg reported that Facebook had banned users from sharing Zero Hedge posts three days earlier.[36] MarketWatch, noting that Zero Hedge is a "frequent critic of Facebook", reported that the ban was lifted later that day with Facebook saying that the ban was a "mistake with our automation to detect spam".[37] Business Insider, describing Zero Hedge as "a favorite of City and Wall Street traders, known for its anti-establishment and bearish slant on financial topics", noted that Donald Trump Jr. and Nigel Farage raised objections to Facebook's censure of Zero Hedge.[50]
Australian telecom company Telstra temporarily denied access to Zero Hedge and other websites on 20 March 2019 as a result of the Christchurch mosque shootings.[51][52][53]
On 20 January 2020, Zero Hedge's Twitter account, which then had 670,000 followers, was "permanently suspended" from Twitter for violating their platform manipulation policy.[14][54] Bloomberg reported that Zero Hedge had been informed by Twitter that the suspension was as a result of an article titled: "Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?", in which they doxed a Chinese virologist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.[29][15][55] On 12 June 2020, Twitter reinstated the account after an appeal from Zero Hedge and stated that the suspension was an error.[38]
Zero Hedge was banned from the Google Ads platform on 17 June 2020. An email from Google to NBC said that Zero Hedge violated Google's content policy that "explicitly prohibit[s] derogatory content that promotes hatred, intolerance, violence or discrimination based on race from monetizing." The violating comments were found on stories related to George Floyd protests.[56][57] Google lifted the ban in July 2020, after the management of Zero Hedge began moderating comments.[58]
Zero Hedge revealed on 17 June 2020 that PayPal had, like Google, deplatformed the site,[59] and they would only be able to accept cryptocurrency payments in the future.[60]
Following a community discussion in July 2020, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia ruled that Zero Hedge did not meet the standards for a reliable source as understood by the community and could not be cited as a source for any claims of fact in the encyclopedia.[61][circular reference]
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The 29 April 2016 "Unmasking Zero Hedge" article by Bloomberg quoted former website staffer Colin Lokey as saying: "I can't be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Trump anymore. It's wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but it will kill your brand over the long run. This isn't a revolution. It's a joke." Lokey told Bloomberg that he was pressured to frame issues in a way he felt was "disingenuous," summarizing its political stances as "Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."[27] Lokey provided chat transcripts in which Ivandjiiski refers to America's "silent majority" as "beastly", while Backshall acknowledges life in the U.S. is bad "outside of my bubble".[27] Wallace-Wells observed that the site demonstrated a pro-Russia bias, stating the site had a "pointed" Russophilia.[33]
that Zero Hedge was also used as a lead-in for a 2016 New Yorker piece about the alt-right, despite its financial focus and a political bent that is more Drudge than Richard Spencer."[34]
In January 2020, when the site was removed from Twitter, BuzzFeed News described Zero Hedge as "pro-Trump" and "far-right",[29] while reporting on the removal, The Washington Post said that Zero Hedge "In recent years, the blog has amplified right-wing conspiracy theories on a range of topics".[15]
Alleged Russian Influence
In March 2020, American journalist Seth Hettena wrote an opinion-piece in The New Republic titled "Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse?", and provided details on the links between Krassimir Ivandjiiski (the site publisher's Bulgarian father), and Soviet-era activities in propaganda, revealed during litigation initiated by the father against Hettena in the Bulgarian courts.[1] Hettena commented that Zero Hedge has become "a forum for the hateful, conspiracy-driven voices of the angry white men of the alt-right. Racists, anti-Semites, extreme right-wingers, and conspiracy nuts were an underserved audience, and, as it turns out, a profitable one."[1]
In February 2022, intelligence officials from the United States claimed that Zero Hedge has amplified Russian propaganda by publishing articles written by Russian state-run media.[83][84][85][86][87]
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
Brilliantati©
Please, though, do not hold your breath.
that old bastard wears flip flops as a reminder to trump hating/loving republicans that he walks all over them.
Cheers,
HFD
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HFD
Cheers,
HFD
I don't think Trump is stupid. I think he's a low life and very emotionally manipulative.